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obama referenced his grandmother during the debate while talking about medicare and social security. sin thee i can't soledad, kitchen aid senior director of marketing later posted from the company's account, apologizing to the prsident. she said the tweet was "carelessly sent in error by a member of our twitter team who, needless to say, won't be tweeting for us any more." >>> a voter watchdog group says it has uncovered voter fraud in maryland. the group election integrity maryland claims it found evidence that some people registered to vote using the names of dead people or registered to vote twice in two different states. the group is not accusing the state board of elections of fraud, but says the problem does need to be corrected. state elections officials say if fraud is found, the information will be given to the state prosecutor's office. >>> making headlines this morning, a rare form of meningitis has health officials concerned. already sickening dozens and killing two people in maryland and virginia. the cdc says patients contracted the infection after receiving steroid in
obama referenced his grandmother during the debate while talking about medicare and social security. sin thee i can't soledad, kitchen aid senior director of marketing later posted from the company's account, apologizing to the prsident. she said the tweet was "carelessly sent in error by a member of our twitter team who, needless to say, won't be tweeting for us any more." >>> a voter watchdog group says it has uncovered voter fraud in maryland. the group election integrity...
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of medicare right away. and the president didn't really refute that. let's take a look at these comments. >> but on medicare, for current retirees, he's cutting $716 billion from the program. now, he says by not overpaying hospitals and providers, actually just going to them and say we're going to reduce the rates you get paid across the board, everybody is going to get a lower rate, that's not just going after places where there's abuse, that's saying we're cutting the race. >> $716 billion we were able to save from the medicare program by no longer overpaying insurance companies, by making sure that we weren't overpaying providers. >> i think i said $716 million. obviously it's billion. what's the truth here, do we know? >> yeah, there's a core effect here that's not in dispute which is that obamacare takes $716 billion out of the medicare system over 10 years. the president -- president obama is arguing that that came out of overpayments to insurance and other things that won't affect the care of patients
of medicare right away. and the president didn't really refute that. let's take a look at these comments. >> but on medicare, for current retirees, he's cutting $716 billion from the program. now, he says by not overpaying hospitals and providers, actually just going to them and say we're going to reduce the rates you get paid across the board, everybody is going to get a lower rate, that's not just going after places where there's abuse, that's saying we're cutting the race. >>...
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south a huge medicare fraud bust making headline this morning. the feds arrested 91 people, some of them doctors and nurses. they are charged with trying to steal $430 million from the government by filling out false billing reports. the federal strike force targeted medicare schemes in louisiana, new york, chicago, dallas, and miami. >>> former apple ceo steve jobs died one year ago today. his tech company is still going strong. some worried about the future of apple including its other cofounder steve wozniak. but the company stock is up about 80% since this time last year. apple has become the most valuable company of all time. just last month, preorders of its latest device surpassed two million in just 24 hours. they are doing just fine. >>> how many friends do you have on facebook? probably about five or six, 20, 30. >> you are if the social networking site itself, you have one billion. >> founder mark zuckerberg made the announcement yesterday. >> the one billion friends aren't translating into money quite yet. >> not in the stock. no, not
south a huge medicare fraud bust making headline this morning. the feds arrested 91 people, some of them doctors and nurses. they are charged with trying to steal $430 million from the government by filling out false billing reports. the federal strike force targeted medicare schemes in louisiana, new york, chicago, dallas, and miami. >>> former apple ceo steve jobs died one year ago today. his tech company is still going strong. some worried about the future of apple including its...
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it focused on dense domestic issues like taxes, social security and medicare and the role of the federal government. the president said romney's ideas are not specific enough. >> his running mate, congressn ryan, put forward a budget that reflects many of the principles that governor romney has talked about and it wasn't very detailed. this seems to be a trend. >> reporter: romney repeatedly accused the president of misrepresenting his position. >> i got five boys. i am used to people saying something that is not always true but just keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping i'll believe it. that is not the case. i will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income americans. >> this is the first of three presidential debates. they go at it again on october 16th. vice presidential candidates, however, debate a week from today. >> nicole, we know the debate was geared a little bit more towards independent voters. do we have any idea how it was received about that set? >> cbs news has an instant overnight polls that they conducted and it showed about 2- 1 uncommitted voters did think mitt romn
it focused on dense domestic issues like taxes, social security and medicare and the role of the federal government. the president said romney's ideas are not specific enough. >> his running mate, congressn ryan, put forward a budget that reflects many of the principles that governor romney has talked about and it wasn't very detailed. this seems to be a trend. >> reporter: romney repeatedly accused the president of misrepresenting his position. >> i got five boys. i am used...
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there are real doubts about medicare plan that paul ryan has put in place that is beginning to hurt them in the battleground states. i don't think there's one thing that can turn it around for him except the ufo theory which i keep coming back, to and we just had it again in the last two weeks. the terrorist attack on our libyan embassy. things like that can change these elections very quickly. you'll remember when john kerry was running against george bush on the friday before the election, osama bin laden came out with a screech against america and you never know about our national security. >> thanks, guys. >>> to michigan and the enduring mystery of jimmy hoffa's disappearance. all eyes on a driveway in suburban detroit where authorities will dig in search of human remains. nbc's john yang is there for us. john, good morning. >> reporter: the path for the sech for jimmy hoffa has been a long and twisted one, and today it does come here to this driveway in suburban detroit. they are going to take soil samples today to see if the answer to the mystery lies here. more than 37 years afte
there are real doubts about medicare plan that paul ryan has put in place that is beginning to hurt them in the battleground states. i don't think there's one thing that can turn it around for him except the ufo theory which i keep coming back, to and we just had it again in the last two weeks. the terrorist attack on our libyan embassy. things like that can change these elections very quickly. you'll remember when john kerry was running against george bush on the friday before the election,...
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obama referenced his grandmother during the debate while talking about medicare and social security. the company apologized to the president. she said the tweet was carelessly september in error by a member of our twitter team who needless to say will not be tweeting for us anymore. >>> montgomery county police are ask for the public's help to find the person who viciously pete a 72-year-old man. he is in critical condition. his two sons found him unconscious noor a dumpster outside his apartment complex on garland avenue in silver spring tuesday morning. he headed out at #:00 p.m. on monday to go shopping and never made it home. -- he headed out at 8:00 p.m. on monday to go shopping and never made it home. >>> the search is on for a 17- year-old missing since monday morning. >> the parents are frantic and say it is not like their son to drop out of the sight like this. we have a report. >> reporter: the 17-year-old senior at w. t. woodson high school was last seen at 7:00 monday morning when he dropped his brother off at the front door and went to park the car. his family didn't rea
obama referenced his grandmother during the debate while talking about medicare and social security. the company apologized to the president. she said the tweet was carelessly september in error by a member of our twitter team who needless to say will not be tweeting for us anymore. >>> montgomery county police are ask for the public's help to find the person who viciously pete a 72-year-old man. he is in critical condition. his two sons found him unconscious noor a dumpster outside...
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medicare will impose the penalties, which they estimate will affect more than 2,000 hospitals across the country. opponents of the plan say this will hurt facilities that serve the poor. >>> it is 5:51 right now. if you're off to an early start this morning, you might want to grab a jacket. >> light jacket or heavy cardigan, both will due because, as i mentioned before, we can define the weather as chilly. >> and bring along a foghorn too, if you happen to have that. >>> we've got fog around this morning. there was a little fog yesterday morning over the occoquan reservoir. that's where i took this picture while kayaking there. one of the great natural resources in fairfax county. that was from fountainhead park where i launched. right now no fog in washington. there's a live view from capitol hill. right now it's 54, and the dewpoint's up there. we've got a rather a bit of humidity in the air that's going to be causing fog to sort of thicken up here over the next few hours. right now getting patchy dense fog, shenandoah valley, panhandle of west virginia, much of western maryland. a
medicare will impose the penalties, which they estimate will affect more than 2,000 hospitals across the country. opponents of the plan say this will hurt facilities that serve the poor. >>> it is 5:51 right now. if you're off to an early start this morning, you might want to grab a jacket. >> light jacket or heavy cardigan, both will due because, as i mentioned before, we can define the weather as chilly. >> and bring along a foghorn too, if you happen to have that....